Two years ago, 31 year old Robert Leone was
driving late at night when he failed to pull over
for a state trooper car. Mr. Leone did not speed
or attempt to avoid the troopers, and was
eventually successfully "pulled over" and driven
into a ditch. A police car blocked his door, and
he was instructed to get out. After attempting to
tell the trooper that he could not get out, he was
shocked repeatedly with a taser, and was forced
out of the car from the other side. The troopers
then proceeded to brutally beat and tase him while
he lay facedown on the ground. During this
assault, one trooper punched Leone in the face and
broke his hand. Afterwards, they pulled him into
the car, handcuffed. After claiming that Leone had
spit on one of them, the Troopers began beating
and tasing him once again after hog-tying him in
the back, as they decided that the cuffs were not
enough restraint. Leone was then taken to the
hospital for treatment. However, one of the
troopers overheard Leone begging one of the nurses
for help, claiming that the troopers had beaten
him. Upon hearing this, the troopers ordered all
hospital personnel out of the room and proceeded
to beat Mr. Leone once again for trying to inform
the staff. He was then taken from the hospital
untreated and incarcerated. He waited in prison 6
months for a trial in which he was tried on 24
charges, including assault for breaking a
trooper's hand with his face. Although he was
found not guilty on all but 4 of the charges, and
the 6 months he waited in prison should have been
a sufficient sentence, he was given 1 1/2-4 years
in prison. He has been brought up for parole and
denied parole twice- once because he failed to
attend a DUI class while in prison (DUI was one of
the 20 charges he was found not guilty of in the
trial) and once because the parole board lost the
paperwork. Leone may very well stay in prison
until the statute of limitations on the charges he
could press on the troopers has expired.
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